Author: Marcus Bennett
Marcus Bennett is GeekBlog's Android expert, covering everything from Google's Pixel line and Samsung Galaxy flagships to OnePlus, Nothing, Xiaomi and the broader Android ecosystem. He follows each Android OS release, One UI and Pixel Feature Drop, custom ROMs and the foldable wave, translating spec sheets and beta builds into hands-on guidance for readers choosing their next Android phone, tablet or wearable.
Galaxy owners across four countries woke up to the same message: account deactivated due to a security issue. Wallet, SmartThings and Samsung Find went with it. Changing the password does nothing, and Samsung has not explained the trigger. Here is what has actually worked so far.
Apple, Samsung, and Omron all promise blood pressure tracking in 2026. Here is what each smartwatch actually measures, what is just an estimate, and what the FDA now says about the whole category.
The Poco F9 Ultra launched with the same Snapdragon as its predecessor, and Poco said on the record why: memory prices. It is the first time an Android brand has tied the DRAM shortage to a specific product decision, and it will not be the last phone this year built around the same math.
Battery demand grew 16 percent in 2026, yet most battery stocks fell. A layer by layer look at cell makers, grid storage, lithium miners and solid state developers, with the numbers behind each.
A Washington Post review found chatbot transcripts surfacing in a dozen public court cases in two years. Conversations with an AI carry none of the legal protection that covers a doctor, a lawyer or a therapist, and on a work account an administrator can usually read them outright. Here is who has access to what.
iPhone owners are reporting 21GB of storage freed by switching off Apple Intelligence, with the drop showing up under Photos. Apple’s own model requirement is about 7GB. Here is what the rest of that number is, and why some of it reappears.
Chinese flagships are shipping 7,000mAh and larger silicon carbon batteries while Apple, Samsung, and Google stay near 5,000mAh. The split comes down to one tradeoff: capacity now against cycle life later, and both sides have a real argument.
Brave 1.94 on desktop adds Email Aliases, disposable addresses you can generate inside any signup form. Five are free, mobile is coming, and a paid tier is planned. Here is what it actually fixes and what it does not.
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage shirt genuinely stops YOLO object detectors from registering that a person is there. The pattern is not decoration, it is math. Here is what it beats, and the much longer list of what it does not.
Sponsored listings are now live in Apple Maps across the US and Canada, and there is no toggle to remove them. The Personalized Ads switch in Settings does nothing here, and the one setting that does work breaks the app.